Posts filed under ‘books’
Can a Book Save Your Life?
Can a book save your life? Well, not really. And with a Kindle you’ll die quickly. This isn’t really a library shenanigan, just a book shenanigan. I wonder if older books, with leather covers, might have offered more resistance? Thanks, Sarah J. Sloat!
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
In Audrey Niffenegger’s The Night Bookmobile (Abrams ComicArts, 2010), each night bookmobile is full of all the books its visitor has ever read — no more, no less. Imagine!
It’s a beautifully-drawn graphic novel mostly about books, love, loneliness, death, and identity, but it’s also about librarianship, I suppose. You can read it in one sitting, but I bet you’ll think about it for much, much longer, whether you’re a librarian or not.
Thanks, Marianne Aldrich.
Did You Know the Book?
Leestademoda introduces us to an amazing technology for reading. This version has English subtitles. Not the first of its kind, nor the last, I’m sure. Thanks, S. Jane Sloat!
20 Heroic Librarians Who Save the World
So glad someone has gathered together these heroic librarians from books, TV, and film. In particular I call your attention to the bookaneers in China Mieville’s excellent novel Un Lun Dun. About time somebody wrote a novel where a prophecy is a crock. Thanks, io9!
Delft University library desk made of books
Gorgeous desk made of recycled books and bound journals at Delft University in the Netherlands. And here are images of a similarly gorgeous project. Thanks, David Weinstock!
Library Lion
In Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes, a lion visits the library and causes some consternation to some of the librarians. This book makes me cry every time. Thanks, Amanda Newman!
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolaturdocuments graffiti in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Quinn Dombrowski began the project in 2007. It’s now a blog, a book, and a massive collection of photographs. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians
Book 2 in Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Lunch Lady series. The librarians are the villains — they want to stop kids from playing video games. During a battle with the lunch ladies, the librarians release beasts from library books (a lion from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; three little pigs from The Three Little Pigs, and so on.) The lunch ladies use their hairnet nets to capture the librarians. After they triumph, the lunch ladies set up a Read-a-thon where students read books while waiting for their turn on the new X-Station 5000. Find this book in a library near you using Open Worldcat.
Library dominoes
Funk ACES Library, University of Illinois, 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwihz7iZlx0
Addendum, April 1, 2014 (thanks, Steve Lawson!) The London Public Library in California put together a similar shenanigan in March of 2014:
Library Shenanigans 